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1
How are coils made?
Punching the thumb into the center of the ball and pinching until thinned.
Weaved individually.
By pouring liquid clay into a mold.
Rolled out with the palm of the hand.
2
What primarily functioned as temples and served as administrative and economic centers?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Ziggurats
The Parthenon
Great Pyramids of Giza
3
Filippo Brunelleschi won second place in the competition, after losing he focused on…
architecture
painting
sculpture
4
What does formal analysis focus on?
Price of artwork
Historical background
The artist’s background
Visual qualities of the work itself
5
What age is linked with rings/rows of rough hewn stones located in Western Europe?
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age
Middle Stone Age
6
What is “Abstract Expressionism”
Visual art that is created in public places.
Art that represents its subject matter truthfully.
Art should be free from the limitations of pictorial subject matter.
Art that reflects modern industrial society and urban space.
7
Until the time of the Renaissance, painters and sculptors were…
Common People
Disappointments
Artisans, were of lesser status because they worked with their hands
Intellectual figures, were accorded a special place in society
8
What feeling does a “line” intend to envoke in the audence?
Sadness
Happiness
Stability
Uneasiness
9
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Gothic style?
Rounded arches
Pointed arches
Flying buttresses
Ribbed vaults
10
What movement aimed to protest against everything in society
Dada
Rococo
Surrealism
Pop Art
11
Chiaroscuro is:
the name of a painting
doesn’t mean anything
An important feature of Louis XIV’s court
dramatic contrast of light & dark
12
What school of design became a byword of modern design by establishing standards for architecture?
Bauhaus
Haywood
Brinton
Mayordine
13
What does “negative space” mean?
An optical trick that uses dark colors to add emphasis on objects
A way of story-telling
The area that surrounds and is in between objects.
A logical grouping of elements
14
Who developed concrete?
The Romans
The famous Greek Parthenon
Antoni Gaudi
The Native Americans
15
What is “Pop Art”
Art that pops out of its frame, adding texture and perspective.
Art that violates unspoken rules of what was appropriate subject matter
Art that is an event to view
Art that depicts a minimalistic amount of details and colors.
16
What does “neutral” mean?
A color that is lighter than most others
A color that is darker than most others
A color that is not intense or saturated
A color that is mainly found in nature
17
Where were the oldest works of art discovered?
Chauvet Cave
Ruins of Machu Picchu
Pyramids of Egypt
Ancient Rome
18
Who is widely considered to be the founder of modern sculpture?
Raphael
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo
19
Photography was developed during the mid-nineteenth century.
True
False
20
Who is often mentioned in connection to the transitional time period of the medieval period to the Renaissance?
Leonardo da Vinci
Giotto di Bondone
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Michelangelo
21
What did Michelangelo sculpt?
The Tempest
Moses
Nothing he only painted
22
During what years did Harlem become a center for African American creativity?
1920s
1910s
1930s
1940s
23
_________, a kind of mixed media in which artists combine various materials.
Collage
Conjunction
Sculpting
Folk Art
24
Who created mobiles with forms suspended by wire which can be moved by wind or air currents?
Robert Rauschenberg
Giotto di Bondone
Filippo Brunelleschi
Alexander Calder
25
In 1401, who won the door designing competition for the city of Florence?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Botticelli
Donatello
Lorenzo Ghiberti
26
Mosaic work is largely Christian in content
True
False
27
What does “intensity” mean?
The amount of paint used in a single work
The brightness or darkness of a color
A scaling of color using a color wheel
A technique that involves the beating of a canvas in order to form texture
28
What is the oldest legal code known?
The Magna Carta
Code of Hammurabi
Code of Justinian
Napoleonic Code
29
What is relief printmaking?
When a camera achieves a higher degree of realism.
When lines are incised on the wood or soft metal plate.
When the artist cuts away parts from the surface of the plate.
When a surface is engraved.
30
Sfumato: means smoke, is the use of mellowed colors & a blurred outline.
False
True
31
What were Etruscan buildings constructed of?
Baked clay
Brick and wood
Concrete
Reinforced concrete
32
Lorenzo Ghiberti designed a door panel with figures harkening back to those of classical Greece. This depicts…
Innovative techniques of the Renaissance
Gates of Paradise
The sacrifice of Isaac
A unifying feature of the design
33
Why did architecture decline during the Late Classical Period?
Athens were defeated in the Peloponnesian War
The ruling government banned architecture
The weather made it difficult to continue building
People turned their focus to painting
34
Who most strongly influenced modern art history?
Giotto di Bondone
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Giorgio Vassari
Pliny the Elder
35
What liquid clay assembles pots together?
Liquid Polymer
Slip
Glaze
Coils
36
What artist was not a part of the surrealist movement?
Joan Miro
Marcel Duchamp
Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
37
What does ”hue” mean?
The shading of an object to properly implement it within the background
The particular degree of light or dark of a color
The amount of total color on a page
The blending of colors to fill space
38
Brunelleschi is credited with developing…
Simple perspective
linear perspective
Sharp perspective
aerial perspective
39
Who wrote The Lives of the Artists?
Giotto di Bondone
Johann Joachhim Winckelmann
Pliny the Elder
Giorgio Vassari
40
What is post-and-lintel construction?
The technique in which a stone or wooden beam is placed across vert. posts.
A building style that alternated between buttresses & thin walls
It is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings.
The construction of both woven and nonwoven materials.
41
What uses the status of figures/objects to determine their relative sizes?
Point scaling
Hierarchical scale
Linear perspective
Atmospheric perspective
42
What age was the figure Venus of Willendorf a part of?
New Stone Age
Old Stone Age
Middle Stone Age
43
What was an ordinary object given a new context called?
Wallets
Bundies
Black-rocks
Ready-mades
44
Carving is an additive process.
True
False
45
The elements of art include all except which of the following?
Line
Intensity
Texture
Shape
46
True or False: mosaic work is largely Christian in content
False
True
47
What is considered the greatest art piece from China?
Spring Morning in the Han Palace
Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Great Wall
A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
48
Which of the following are types of paint?
Acrylic paint, gouache, glazes, and watercolor.
Gouache, encaustic, watercolor, and acrylic paint.
Fresco, encaustic, tempera, and impasto.
Impasto, fresco, watercolor and acrylic paint.
49
Craft and Folk Art is a variety of art forms across all cultures.
True
False
50
Where did many Northern European artists travel to study in the 16th Century?
France
Greece
Italy
England
51
What are the two types of Abstract Expressionists?
Tempera, Encaustic
Action, Color Fields
52
Baroque artwork was characterized by a greater sense of movement & energy
False
True
53
During the Renaissance, what medium was primarily used to create realistic details?
Baroque
Gouache
Oil Paints
Acrylic Paints
54
Raphael Sanzio was not one of the most influential painters of the High Renaissance.
True
False
55
What was the text Natural Rights meant to analyze?
Freedoms of individuals
Role of people in a society
Impact of industrialization
Historical and contemporary art
56
What mode focuses on looking outside of the work to find its meaning?
Interpretive criticism
Contextual analysis
Formal analysis
Visual deconstruction
57
What does optical color refer to?
The choice of colors for their emotional or aesthetic impact.
The “true” color of an object or area as seen in normal daylight.
The effect that special lighting has on the color of objects.
The equal distribution of visual weight in a work of art.
58
What is Neoclassicism?
Characterized by distortion of certain elements like perspective or scale
A style hearkened back to the emotional emphasis of the Baroque
Characters of classical myth
A revival of interest in the art of classical Greece and Rome
59
Simple perspective: creates an illusion of a stage for Giotto’s figures, gives viewers a sense of looking into the event
False
True
60
When did Modernism emerge?
19th Century
22nd Century
20th Century
21st Century
61
Who is viewed as the most famous artist of Reformation Germany?
Albrecht Dürer
Caravaggio
Matthias Grünewald
Gianlorenzo Bernini
62
Two models for the “Renaissance man”
Leonardo da Vinci & Michelangelo
Filippo Brunelleschi & Donatello
Raphael & Botticelli
Botticelli & Lorenzo Ghiberti
63
What does “positive space” mean?
A good amount of space in the background of an art piece
The objects that occupy an artwork
The space between two objects in a painting
Lines drawn throughout a background to add texture to the piece
64
What is Lithography?
Process where a design is incised through wax/varnish on a metal plate
Process where waxy pencil or crayon draws directly on a plate.
An additive process.
Process of paint on walls or ceilings.
65
Which of the following is an example of the Intaglio printmaking process?
Stippling
Modeling
Etching
Cross Hatching
66
What was the first major showing of modern art in America
The First Impressionist Exhibition
The Armory Show
Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
The Great Exhibition
67
_________, the charged attempt to make the inner workings of the mind visible in art.
Romanticism
Expressionism
Art Nouveau
Modernism
